My High School Pop-Punk Band - One Size Fits All
From 2002-2005 I played in a local pop-punk band called One Size Fits All…I was essentially running a very small business, designing shirts, building websites, booking shows, buying / renting gear, writing and recording music…but had no idea what I was doing.
I grew up loving music, my first. cassettes were Best of Queen and Green Day’s Dookie! My first instrument was the saxophone, which I played in school band until about 7th grade. I taught myself how to play guitar using a right handed classic guitar my folks got from a yard sale…and I started my first punk band in 8th grade! We were a 2-man operation with only a guitarist and drummer, I learned how to write songs and record using a karaoke machine. We were called C-Minus and there are in fact demos, gifs, flash animations, and photos from that era…but we’ll fast forward to the 9th grade, when I started One Size Fits All!
A drummer from the town over responded to my flier at the local music shop, and and an 8th grader I knew played bass. Our band started in 2001, our first show was in April 2002, and our website launched by September 15th 2002. Over the course of our years together, we recorded about a dozen songs and played about 50-60 concerts around Massachusetts and North East. The band was inspired by Blink 182, Bad Religion, NOFX, and later artists like Thrice and The Receiving End of Sirens, as well as other skate punk bands from that era. I eventually started incorporating keyboard into our live sets as our sound evolved…and doing backflips mid-set…
While some live videos do exist, we only produced on music video. We recorded Tantrum in 2003, right when we switched bassists! We wanted to produce a video that was anti-violence…unfortunately, our prop weapon still had a BB and enough air in it, when the director began messing with it, fired a single BB into our drummers head…which is why he’s wearing a bandaid in the video. Fortunately he was fine and we went on to shoot the video without that specific prop weapon…
After band split in the Fall of my senior year of high school (2004), I initially spent time playing a lot of Halo, but also performing in various local bands like Lucky Sunday and Hydraulic Sandwich. I eventually began recording and performing as a solo artist and recorded a 3 track EP the following year. A new blog dedicated to my time as a solo artist and the shows I played will come soon. But for now, below you will find a couple One Size Fits All songs we recorded over the course of the bands existence, they used to live on Mp3.com, GarageBand.com, PureVolume, Myspace, etc…but for now, they’re here on SoundCloud.
I designed our band t-shirts when I was 14, prior to earning a degree in graphic design…
